Sunday, July 12, 2009

Well, another week of 2009 has come and gone and with last weeks challenge at Stamptacular Sunday Challenge we should all have a good start on our Christmas cards for this year, right?

Anyways, this week's challenge at Stamptacular is a card sketch! I LOVE sketches but this one was particularly challenging for me because our sponsor, Papirloftet, generously supplied each of the Design Team members with a kit full of goodies. The kit was fabulous and contained many different things such brads, flowers, charms, ribbon, prints and even cardstock but I was completely out of my element. I had never used the darling prints that they included and everything seemed to have a vintage feel to me. If you know anything about me...you KNOW I have no clue what to do with vintage! LOLSo...I would pick the package up almost every single day since I've received it wondering what in the world I could create with it...

Although, not my favorite card I've ever made I do like it. I really enjoyed using the flowers and think that placing them the way I did, instead of just using ribbon or cardstock for the band in the sketch, turned out to be a nice effect. You can't really tell but I handstamped all the cardstock myself for an added detail hoping that it would give it an even more "antique" look.

9 comments:

This is soo pretty and you really added to the effect by stamping the mat and the rough edged mat too. Beautiful work you should be so proud of yourself for going outside your comfort zone and doing so beautifully at it!

I love what you've done with the sketch and the kit, Priscilla! I was just like you... I struggled because nothing in the kit was "my style" and even when I showed the card to my Mom and husband, they didn't believe it was one of mine! They loved it, but it just wasn't a "Dee Card" :) I'm clueless when it comes to vintage, too.. but it was fun to step out of my box and "shock" my friends with what I actually CAN do! hehe!

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I am a mother to a wonderful teenage daughter and have been in a committed relationship for almost 17 years. I'm not sure why we haven't gotten married yet...just hasn't ever been at the top of our "to do" list. Maybe someday!
A few years ago, somehow I learned about stamping and scrapbooking. Soon after, I became a "COLLECTOR" of supplies. Then, I became addicted and now, from what I've been told, it's official, I'm a PAPER FABRICATOR.